From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030352AbWARPsK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:48:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030354AbWARPsK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:48:10 -0500 Received: from mxsf21.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.221]:14558 "EHLO mxsf21.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030352AbWARPsJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:48:09 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.99,381,1131339600"; d="scan'208"; a="1722952998:sNHT27666650" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17358.25398.943860.755559@smtp.charter.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:48:06 -0500 From: "John Stoffel" To: "Takashi Sato" Cc: , Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: Extends blocksize up to pagesize In-Reply-To: <000001c61c30$00814e80$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> References: <000001c61c30$00814e80$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Takashi> As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a Takashi> capacity to supply multi-TB. But now, ext3 can't support Takashi> more than 8TB filesystem when blocksize is 4KB. That's why I Takashi> think ext3 needs to be more than 8TB. Man, I don't want to even think about doing an FSCK on an 8TB filesystem running ext[23] at all. In that size range, you really need a filesystem which doesn't need an FSCK at all. Not sure what the real answer is though... John